Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West

By Garrett Wilson

Book Overview

"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning

"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn." -- Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia

"Frontier Farewell has energy and glory." -- The StarPhoenix

"Wilson...writes with great elegance and clarity." -- James A. Hanson, Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

Frontier Farewell "ends with the disastrous bloodletting--the gruesome unwinding of a two-hundred-year experiment." -- Lionel Hughes, Prairies North

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889773610
• ISBN13: 9780889773615
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 525 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"